Environment
How Permanent Are Carbon Offsets?
Something that worries many people about offsetting emissions with trees is how can you guarantee that they will last long enough? Trees take time to absorb carbon, extracting it slowly from the atmosphere as they grow. But saplings are vulnerable to bad weath [read more...]
Recycling As A Form Of Offsetting
Every Thursday night, like every other householder in our neighborhood, I collect our waste paper, cans, bottles and plastic and put them out on the street outside our house. On Friday morning a local municipal truck comes by and collects it for recycling. I p [read more...]
All About Plant And Factory Fires
There are so many people in our country and others who have to make their living in some sort of plant or factory. It can be difficult each day to go into one particular building or facility to do the same job over and over again, but it is a necessity. In our [read more...]
All About Whole House Water Filters
How much do you really know about the water in your home that you and your family drink, bath in, and cook with? Do you know what chemicals or bacteria it contains? Do you really know how safe it is for ingestion or even coming into contact with? Even water th [read more...]
Florida Gets Massive Water Damage From Tropical Storm Fay
As this article is being written, tropical storm Fay is bashing the state of Florida. So far she has not reached a hurricane status as was expected, but she is wreaking havoc none the less. Tropical storms might not have the horrendous reputation that their hu [read more...]
Wind Damage Verses Water Damage
When Mother Nature decides to show her furious side, it can be devastating for humans and their property alike. Many times people will die or be seriously injured physically and sometimes they are emotionally damaged because they can lose everything they own o [read more...]
Tropical Storm Fay Causes Flooding
This has been a tumultuous week for Florida residents as tropical storm has lingered for five consecutive days, dumping rain in the pan handle area steadily. The storm is only the fourth to make landfall on three separate occasions. Some areas have had two fee [read more...]
Your Shower May Be The Biggest Tool For Water Conservation
Another way to limit the amount of water used in the shower is to switch to a low flow showerhead. Low flow showerheads available on the market today are emitting amounts of water as low as one gallon per minute. Older showerheads can emit as much as five or m [read more...]
Make Your Bathroom Water Effecient
Our water sources are depleting at a very rapid pace. Scientists say we are using up the water that comes from the aquifers that run underneath the United States faster than we can replenish them. Can you believe that the largest aquifer, the Ogallala, is bein [read more...]
Food And Water Is A World Crisis
For those of us who have plenty of water at our disposal everyday, it can be hard to imagine what it would be like to not have enough. Actually, there are millions of people in some places of the world who do not have an adequate supply of even remotely clean [read more...]
